Nonequilibrium boundary-driven quantum systems: Models, methods, and properties

GT Landi, D Poletti, G Schaller - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the theoretical understanding of quantum
systems driven dissipatively by coupling to different baths at their edges. This was possible …

Characterizing the performance of heat rectifiers

S Khandelwal, M Perarnau-Llobet, S Seah… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
A physical system connected to two thermal reservoirs at different temperatures is said to act
as a heat rectifier when it is able to bias the heat current in a given direction, similarly to an …

Heat transport and rectification via quantum statistical and coherence asymmetries

S Palafox, R Román-Ancheyta, B Çakmak… - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Recent experiments at the nanoscales confirm that thermal rectifiers, the thermal equivalent
of electrical diodes, can operate in the quantum regime. We present a thorough investigation …

Dark-state-induced heat rectification

K Poulsen, NT Zinner - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Heat and noise control is essential for the continued development of quantum technologies.
For this purpose, a particularly powerful tool is the heat rectifier, which allows for heat …

Quantum wheatstone bridge

K Poulsen, AC Santos, NT Zinner - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We propose a quantum Wheatstone bridge as a fully quantum analog to the classical
version. The bridge is a few-body boundary-driven spin chain exploiting quantum effects to …

Quantum heat valve and entanglement in superconducting LC resonators

Y Liu, Y Yang, T Ma, C Yu - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum superconducting circuit with flexible coupler has been a powerful platform for
designing quantum thermal machines. In this Letter, we employ the tunable coupling of two …

Quantum heat valve and diode of strongly coupled defects in amorphous material

Y Liu, Y Yang, T Ma, Z Liu, C Yu - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
The mechanical strain can control the frequency of two-level atoms in amorphous material.
In this work, we would like to employ two coupled two-level atoms to manipulate the …

Detuning effects for heat-current control in quantum thermal devices

AHA Malavazi, B Ahmadi, P Mazurek, A Mandarino - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Navigating the intricacies of thermal management at the quantum scale is a challenge in the
pursuit of advanced nanoscale technologies. To this extent, theoretical frameworks …

All-optical control of thermal conduction in waveguide quantum electrodynamics

WB Yan, ZX Man, YJ Zhang, H Fan, YJ Xia - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the heat conduction between two one-dimensional waveguides
intermediated by a laser-driving atom. The laser provides the optical control of the heat …

Heat current magnification in classical and quantum spin networks

V Upadhyay, P Gandhi, R Juneja, R Marathe - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We investigate heat current magnification (CM) due to asymmetry in the number of spins in
two-branched classical as well as quantum spin systems that are kept between two heat …